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    Dust to Dust

    Matthew Hosier  |  Mon 4 January 2016   It’s funny how theological ideas come along like busses. Having not come across anything about the virtues of Christian burial over cremation for years, over Christmas... Read more
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    Ashes to Ashes

    Matthew Hosier  |  Fri 1 January 2016   Philip Larkin famously described life as slow dying. A somewhat morbid thought, but not an inappropriate one at the end of one year and the beginning of another.... Read more
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    Illegitimate Orientation

    Matthew Hosier  |  Tue 15 December 2015   Even if, as medical research seems to suggest, paedophilia is a sexual orientation, none of us would want to see paedophilia legitimised. As Simon Bass, CEO of CCPAS,... Read more
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    Fightin’ Talk

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 10 December 2015   At times it can feel as though we Christians have to do a lot of apologizing because of other Christians. In a culture which is increasingly hostile to the claims of... Read more
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    What if Paedophilia is an Orientation? A Response

    Matthew Hosier  |  Tue 8 December 2015   A couple of weeks back I posted about some of the possible implications of James Cantor’s research which suggests paedophilia is a sexual orientation. Following this,... Read more
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    God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades, by Rodney...

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 3 December 2015   I first posted this review five years ago, before Think was up and running, when I was blogging in a number of different places. With the current events in Syria, and... Read more
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    Liberté, égalité & fraternité are not enough

    Matthew Hosier  |  Tue 1 December 2015   Two weeks ago my eldest daughter was meant to be going on a school trip to Paris. Inevitably, this trip was cancelled. I don’t think the school had much option, given... Read more
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    What if Paedophilia is an Orientation?

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 26 November 2015   According to a report by the BBC, Dr James Cantor, of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, claims that, "Paedophilia is a sexual orientation.... Read more
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    Set Thinking

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 22 October 2015   Recently I was in a gathering of church leaders in which we were challenged to move from ‘bounded set’ to ‘centred set’ thinking. A bounded set is one in which... Read more
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    Conducting the Choir

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 15 October 2015   Last night Mrs Hosier and I took a fifteen minute stroll from our house across the park to a performance by the wonderful Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at their home... Read more